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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Journalists are some of the most honest people there are. Truth and honesty is their currency. It’s their passion. “What’s the truth here?” If they lie, or get something seriously wrong, they get fired. American journalists don’t like it when …

Thursday, December 15, 2016

No personal slight is too small for the next President of the United States. Donald Trump reopened an old feud this week, tweeting, “Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, …

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Havana, March 4-12, 2016. — You learn a little something about Cuba before you even board the airplane in Miami. The Cubans who are allowed to visit the States return with giant plastic-wrapped bundles of goods they can’t buy at …

Friday, February 26, 2016

Donald Trump says Mexican immigrants are a threat to America. Ted Cruz swears that a Democratic president will erase the Second Amendment. Marco Rubio warns that the fall election is a battle for the soul of America. Aren’t they watching …

Thursday, January 7, 2016

They should have called Obamacare the Healthcare Confusion Act. The real scandal of healthcare reform is not whether it has raised or lowered costs, or if it’s a government takeover of health insurance. The failure of Obamacare is that when …

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

If you believe in free speech, don’t go to college. What happened at the University of Missouri in Columbia this week shows that a lot of college students and even some of their faculty don’t believe in the exchange of …

Friday, June 19, 2015

Only in television news can you rehab your own people on television news. NBC’s disgraced Brian Williams sat for a soul-searching interview with Today’s Matt Lauer to explain and apologize for his fabulist storytelling before he returns to the NBC …

Thursday, May 14, 2015

The suspension of the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady from the start of next fall’s NFL season is one of the best things to happen to sports since Tivo let us all go to the bathroom. Professional sports …

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

The walls of my office at home are decorated with pictures mostly of myself. There I am standing in front of a Western wildfire and posing with Gen. Chuck Yeager, the man who broke the sound barrier. I have a …

Friday, January 2, 2015

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chief of Police William Bratton should do the one thing they would never dare do to fix the attitude of their police force. They should fire a thousand cops. In the midst …

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